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CVE-2018-15859
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-08-25T21:29:02.170 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:43:13.297

Summary

Unchecked NULL pointer usage when parsing invalid atoms in ExprResolveLhs in xkbcomp/expr.c in xkbcommon before 0.8.2 could be used by local attackers to crash (NULL pointer dereference) the xkbcommon parser by supplying a crafted keymap file, because lookup failures are mishandled.

Affected products

xkbcommon — libxkbcommon

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